Wat Chulamanee
Prakham Thon Bead of Tao Wessuwan, Sacred-Art Edition 1, Wat Chulamanee, B.E. 2565 (2022)

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Prakham Thon Bead of Tao Wessuwan, Sacred-Art Edition 1, Wat Chulamanee, B.E. 2565 (2022)

B.E. 2565

A single large prayer bead (prakham thon) of Tao Wessuwan of the Cātummahārājika heaven, with both a yaksha face and a deva face, a three-piece assembly, sacred-art edition 1, by Luang Pho Itthi Bhaddacaro, Wat Chulamanee, B.E. 2565, sized 1.5 × 1.9 cm, made in many materials with reverence prices, to raise funds for building the Dhamma-samvega pavilion and the car park of Wat Chulamanee.

The Prakham Thon bead of Tao Wessuwan, sacred-art edition 1 is a single large prayer bead (prakham thon), egg-shaped, depicting Tao Wessuwan of the Cātummahārājika heaven with both a yaksha face and a deva face, made as a three-piece assembly. It was created by Luang Pho Phra Khru Sophitwiriyaphon (Luang Pho Itthi Bhaddacaro), Wat Chulamanee, Bang Chang Subdistrict, Amphawa District, Samut Songkhram Province, in the Buddhist year B.E. 2565 (2022 CE).

The bead measures 1.5 × 1.9 cm; every bead bears a serial number.

Purpose of the edition: 1. to raise funds for building the Dhamma-samvega pavilion at Wat Chulamanee; 2. to raise funds for building the car park of Wat Chulamanee and for various public welfare works.

Materials, Numbers Made, and Reverence Prices

The temple set out the production as follows.

  1. Pure gold (approx. 25–27 g) — made to reservation · reverence price 80,000 baht

  2. Pure silver with a pure-gold figure (gold weight 2–2.2 g) — made to reservation · reverence price 20,000 baht

  3. Pure silver — 1,599 beads · reverence price 3,300 baht

  4. Nawa gold-bathed with pure-silver figure — 599 beads · reverence price 2,200 baht

  5. Nawa silver-bathed with pure-silver figure — 599 beads · reverence price 2,200 baht

  6. Nawa — 999 beads · reverence price 1,500 baht

  7. Sacred metal gold-bathed, rainbow enamel — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  8. Sacred metal gold-bathed, red enamel, black ground — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  9. Sacred metal gold-bathed, white enamel, silver figure — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  10. Sacred metal titanium-plated, gold-plated figure, red ground — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  11. Sacred metal silver-bathed, blue enamel, black ground — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  12. Khan-long-hin alloy, gold-bathed — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  13. Khan-long-hin alloy, silver-bathed, gold figure — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,300 baht

  14. Sacred metal gold-bathed, green–red enamel ground — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,100 baht

  15. Sacred metal gold-bathed — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,100 baht

  16. Satin-silver with gold figure — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,100 baht

  17. Satin-copper with silver figure — 1,999 beads · reverence price 1,100 baht

  18. Satin-silver — 2,999 beads · reverence price 600 baht

  19. Satin-copper — 2,999 beads · reverence price 600 baht

  20. Satin-brass — 2,999 beads · reverence price 600 baht

  21. Copper with crab-shell patina — 9,999 beads · reverence price 500 baht

  22. Committee set (1. sacred metal gold-bathed, three-colour enamel, green ground, silver–gold figure; 2. sacred metal gold-bathed, three-colour enamel, blue ground, silver–gold figure; 3. sacred metal gold-bathed, red enamel, silver figure) — 3,999 sets · reverence price 3,000 baht

  23. Black-rhodium with gold pattern, red enamel — 5,000 beads · given in appreciation to those who donated toward the land purchase and to the helpers

Gallery of the Various Materials and the Production List

For information on obtaining these pieces, please enquire directly with Wat Chulamanee, Amphawa District, Samut Songkhram Province.

Note: This account is compiled from the production information and list published by the temple, to record the history of this edition, and is not intended for any commercial purpose whatsoever.